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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5828905" data-attributes="member: 4937">Ok, but remember you asked for it.Both.  But generally it serves as a means of obfuscating understanding of complex topics regardless of why it is done.  It's basically just giving up and saying, "Well, this is hard to understand or describe as it really is, so I won't even try."Remember how you felt that people who prefered confusion to knowledge should be mocked?  Well, personally I believe simplifications lead to confusion.  That's why I'm so verbose when describing things; reality is complicated.   If I thought I could get away with a simplier description, then I would use one.  People who prefer simplifications because they make discussions easier, aren't really choosing to have greater knowledge of reality.  They are inventing elaborate fantasies in their heads and going around insulting other people and belittling them because those people don't buy into their fantasies.One of these days you may realize that loose metaphors, false categorizations, sterotypes, and gross simplifications don't actually constitute knowledge.</blockquote>